We ordered some new books from scholastic this month and couldn’t resist this one about counting pumpkin seeds! It inspired us to count our pumpkin seeds by 5’s and 10’s. How many seeds in a pumpkin? By Margaret McNamara Illustrated by G. Brian Karas In the story, Mr. Tiffin and his class […]
Mixing colored water using eyedroppers was always a favorite activity of mine when I was a preschool teacher. It is an exciting activity for any age. My 6 year old has been enjoying this activity since he was 2. Now he is showing his 2 year old sister how it’s done. She is learning to […]
My 6 year old has been a big fan of kinetic sand for quite a while. Now he has moved on to Kinetic Sand Build. It holds it’s shape better than the original. My 2 year old started spooning the Kinetic Sand Build into freezer trays recently, and gave us a great idea…..Kinetic Sand blocks. […]
Last year we made a pumpkin pie scented play dough that I loved. I wanted to make a batch of play dough to celebrate the return of the honey crisp apple season! I used cherry Kool Aid powder for the red color and fruity smell, and of course cinnamon. So, here’s my recipe…… […]
We explore and manipulate play dough in our house every day. Here we have our “Joy”, “Anger”, and “Sadness” play dough. This is how we decided to use it today: We pushed our pegs down into the play dough, and pulled them back out. She ended up turning it into a color sorting activity all […]
We looove Halloween in our house. My son has pumpkins in his room all year long, and of course we read our Halloween books all year long too! Here are some of our favorite children’s books for Halloween. Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson Illustrated by Alex Scheffler The sing song rhymes […]
I wanted to have a couple games set up outside for my son’s party. Since his birthday was at the end of August, I decided to make the party games out of clearance summer pool toys. Pool Noodle Ring Toss Game We cut a bunch of pool noodles into different lengths. We shoved 1 to […]
My son decided he wanted to have an Inside Out themed party for his 6th birthday. We saw the movie and fell in love with these adorable characters! I knew as soon as I started brainstorming that Inside Out would be an easy and super fun party theme. In addition to using the characters to […]
